From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 09:28:29 GMT
Subject: Re: git status during interactive rebase
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1601211016140.2964@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kbUwJ+CN=YoQUP=rm=EhU=fU2ynt_7Q-cd7Dic-bsx+TA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Stefan,

On Wed, 20 Jan 2016, Stefan Beller wrote:

> So I ran an interactive rebase, and while editing
> .git/rebase-merge/git-rebase-todo I tried to run
> `git status` in another terminal to inquire about a
> filename of an untracked file.

Heh, I don't think that anybody did that before, because the rebase has
not even quite started yet...

The cop-out would be to write an empty 'done' file before editing the
todo, but it would give the wrong impression that it is safe to run `git
rebase --continue` now... Interactive rebase is *definitely* not
thread-safe ;-)

So the proper fix might be to test for the presence of the "done" file and
otherwise tell the user that this rebase has not even started yet.

Ciao,
Dscho